- Do dishes made with the cheapest
and most expensive ingredients taste the same?
- Let's talk about that.
((Intro Music))
- Good Mythical Morning.
- And Good Mythical PJ day.
I am strategically frugal.
Some may say it's cheap, but I'm cheap in a cerebral way.
For instance,
I buy the cheapest
ingredients at the store because there is no way
the more expensive versions
of the same ingredients make any kind of
noticeable difference,
especially when someone mixes them all up into a thing.
- That's how you define cooking?
Mixing them up into a thing? That makes a lot of sense.
- Yeah. - I disagree.
More expensive ingredients do make better dishes.
Well, let's put
that to the test.
It's time for
Food Price Fight!
Top Shelf versus Bottom Shelf.
((Music))
- [Stevie] Gentlemen, before you are two seemingly
identical dishes prepared by the Mythical Kitcheneers
But one was made using only the cheapest ingredients
from a grocery store,
and the other was made with only
the most expensive ingredients from the same store.
And first up, we've got Eggs Benedict made with ingredients
from Whole Foods.
Also, if you take a look over there, you can see
Chase. He's wearing PJ's and he's standing next to podiums.
- What a coinkydink.
- [Stevie] Are all the ingredients we used for each dish.
You can look over there, at both,
Chase, the podiums, and the ingredients
for one point, taste these things.
And then
I'm going to ask you to guess which is the cheapest dish?
Of these two.
- [Rhett] I like eggs benny.
- This is good. I guess I do, too.
I've been kind of scared away by the name.
It seemed a little too political.
((Laughing))
- Like you would feel like a traitor for eating it?
- Got the saltiness of the ham.
You got the squishiness of that egg.
And what is that? A bagel?
A muffin?
- English muffin. - English muffin.
Okay, I'm going to move my knife,
and I'm going to take whatever egg that was off of my.
- Yeah, I did the same thing.
I just rubbed it on the side of the plate.
The reason I thought you wouldn't like
it is because of the runny egg,
which is kind of the whole point of a benny.
- [Link] I'm trying to open myself up to.
- Eggs?
- More of a runny egg.
- What part of yourself are you opening up?
- The mouth part.
- Oh, good. - And the heart part.
- Oh, open your heart.
- [Link] It is runny, though.
- They're both good.
- They really are.
- I don't feel like I tasted.
Let me see.
- Cause when I look over there, you got a lot of 365s
stuff happening versus the high end stuff.
Both of these are good.
- Yeah, welcome to the benny world, man.
- This is a difficult round.
- [Stevie] Okay, I'm going to need your hand over the cheaper one
in 3, 2, 1.
- I mean. - I like this one a little bit more.
- I just like the taste a little bit more.
And I think it was something about.
- [Rhett] The ham is saltier.
- [Link] The ham was saltier.
- The ham is saltier. Does that make it better or cheaper though?
- I think that really is all I was tasting.
- [Stevie] The cheapest plate of Eggs Benedict is on
Link's side.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] Now, Chase,
you can go ahead and remove the price tag
on the cheaper ingredient podium
so we can see the total check out price there.
- Now, this is if you bought
all these ingredients as they come, like
you didn't use all 12 eggs, but you had to buy 12 eggs?
- [Link] Right, right.
Now, can you tell me what kind of ham that was?
- [Stevie] See, the thing is,
and this is what I was told, Chase,
you can confirm since you're near
the groceries, I believe that's the one item
where there was only one option.
So the ham, Canadian ham is the same.
- [Chase] The same from both, yeah.
- [Rhett] And that was the only difference we tasted.
- Uncured Canadian bacon.
Same brand. Same exact packaging.
- But you know what?
Fine sea salt and iodized sea salt.
There is a difference.
And the fine sea salt tastes better than the iodized sea salt.
- [Stevie] Well, so if the cheaper
ingredient checkout price was 31.53,
and this part's worth two points for you, so
a lot on the line here.
- Oh, no, the iodized taste better.
- [Stevie] What do you think the price
of the expensive check out cart was?
You're guessing
the price Chase has not uncovered over there.
- [Link] I mean, this is a whole grocery haul
- Okay.
- I thought it was twice as expensive, roughly.
- I didn't go that hard.
I said it was 46.74.
- [Stevie] Chase, please do the honors.
- [Link] Because that stuff adds up.
- [Rhett] Oh!
- I'm telling you, man.
- [Rhett] More than twice as expensive.
- It adds up, y'all, even if the ham is exactly the same.
- Okay.
Well, you get the point for the price.
- And there are.
- [Stevie] Two points.
- I told you, man,
it ain't worth it.
We need to go with the bargain.
- Okay, well, before.
But we preferred the bougie.
But I agree. We didn't
prefer it enough to justify paying more than twice
as much for the ingredients.
Okay.
- Eggs "Bened", "bene"?
- Eggs Benedict
- [Both] Bargain.
((Music))
- [Stevie] Next up, we have chocolate chip cookies made from scratch
with ingredients bought at Walmart.
- Walmart.
- [Stevie] Taste away, please.
Okay. So a lot of Great Value.
- They're very different looking.
- Yeah, look.
- [Rhett] This ain't eggs, benny.
- [Link] What?
How could this happen?
Okay, let's start with this.
- I wonder if the Mythical Kitchen was feeling fancy
when they made them and they made them look different?
Or if that's really just the ingredients.
That do that.
- [Chase] Or maybe they went with the Chase approach
and just tried their best.
- Well, that's what you're doing.
- Well, you're looking your best, I can tell you that.
- Stop it, guys.
- I wish I could buy those PJs that we're all
wearing somewhere, but
more on that later.
((Laughing))
So we got the Ghirardelli chocolate chip.
- [Rhett] I'm tasting a difference in the chocolate chips.
- I'm more of the taste in the cookie guy,
and I think that taste better over here.
- Well.
- [Stevie] Put your hand over
What you think is the cheapest? In 3,
2, 1.
- We didn't.
I didn't like these as much. They're a little bland.
This one, is like, it leapt
forth with flavor.
- [Stevie] The cheapest plate of chocolate chip cookies is on
Link's side.
- Oh, dang! We like the cheap cookies, y'all.
- Are you serious?
- [Stevie] Yeah. Yeah.
- No, she's lying to us.
This whole time way.
- [Stevie] Yeah, so we can go ahead and remove the price tag on the cheap
checkout podium.
- [Link] Why is that?
- 23.72.
- Nicole, do you think that there's something?
- [Nicole] Sometimes cheaper, sweet things
taste better than the fancy stuff
It just does.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- [Stevie] So, you have to.
You have to guess what the expensive
price would be at checkout.
And the cheap is 23.72.
- Well,
I'm pretty happy that my assertion at the top,
my frugality is winning the day
so far.
Okay.
What did you think, Rhett?
Did you double it this time?
- 39.77.
- Oh, 39.98.
- Hey!
- We are so on the same wavelength in this round.
- [Stevie] All right, Chase, let's see.
- [Rhett] Oh, dang it!
- It's my day. - By 21 cents.
- [Stevie] Yeah, those two points go to Link again.
But, what are you picking in the end?
- Well, I think I'm picking the bargain
because we liked it better.
((Laughing))
- Yeah, we've got to go with the cheap
chocolate chip cookies.
- [Both] Bargain.
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- [Rhett] Got a little sheen.
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- That's a quarter off. - It's a quarter off.
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- I understand.
- [Stevie] All right.
Let's bring in these cheese burgers for our final round.
And they are made from ingredients bought at Ralphs.
- [Link] Good ol' Ralph's.
- [Rhett] Ralph's got some good stuff
- As Nancy.
My dad's wife calls it, Pete's.
- Yeah, well, you know what she's talking about.
I don't know why, but she kept calling it Pete's.
- Yeah, well.
Maybe she got some Pete's coffee at Ralph's.
- [Link] Yes, we got.
- [Rhett] I think the pickle might be the thing
that helps us the most here.
- You want to start with the pickle?
I can't say if that's a horrible pickle.
You want to bite the burger first?
- I like to cut it.
- Okay.
Okay. That's a big slab of onion.
Thank you for going tomatoless.
- [Nicole] You're welcome.
- We've got mustard, ketchup.
- [Rhett] There's nothing wrong with
that burger.
- Ain't got nothing to complain about with this burger.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- [Link] That's a good burger.
- I like the way you put the mustard at the bottom.
Fancy.
- Or is it? - You want me to cut
on the crack or across the crack?
- [Link] Right on that butt crack. Yeah.
That's what it's there for, right?
- You want to get the pickles too?
Go all the way to the pickles and cut some pickles?
- [Link] Yeah, cut the pickles.
All right, it's a bigger pickle.
I don't like that pickle as much.
I mean, the the bun had a crack in it.
Isn't that automatically?
- A fancy bun. Fancy buns have cracks.
- But nowadays they got, like, the Ralphs brand that's
supposed to be fancy.
It's a good burger, but.
- It's not as good as this burger.
- [Link] What's missing?
What is missing?
- It's a better burger.
It's a better burger.
It's a better pickle.
- All right. Yeah.
This one's obvious to me.
- [Stevie] Hand over the cheaper burger.
3, 2, 1.
- I think
the cheaper one's better.
- Yeah, but
you put your hand over the cheaper one.
- Yeah, I did this
is the cheaper one, it's better.
That's the more expensive one.
- What?
- You put your hand over the cheaper one.
- [Stevie] Putting your hand over the one
that's the cheapest.
- Yes, I like the cheaper one better.
- You think the cheaper one's better?
- Yeah. - That can't be true.
In this case you can't.
Because I can see that's Kobe beef, man.
- [Stevie] The cheapest cheeseburgers on
Rhett's side.
- Yeah, man. - The cheaper's better.
So, again, I was.
I was wrong, but I'm validated in my position.
So I'm voting.
I've been voting against myself.
- All three rounds.
- I didn't believe in myself.
- I mean.
Two of the rounds we preferred the bargain, and the first one,
we didn't think the bougie was worth it.
So we've learned a good lesson here, but.
- Let's see the price.
- [Rhett] Link, you have the opportunity, not for a queen's sweep.
But to get queen's sweeps in the pricing.
If you can beat me in the pricing, I mean,
you'll really hurt my pride.
- And I'm going to try hard.
24.74 That's not bad for,
how many burgers are in that, Chase? Four?
- Four.
- So you know you're making four burgers, $6.
$6 and something a burger. That ain't bad.
- And you have four buns leftover.
- [Link] And it tastes great.
That Kobe beef, they're going to
set you back for that crap.
- Okay.
- All right. What's your number?
- I said 47.61.
- I said $50.01.
- [Stevie] Let's see.
- [Link] Come on.
- [Rhett] Oh, I finally got you!
- We were so close, man.
- You still won.
- This burger's so much better.
Cheaper burger, better.
Cheaper cookies, better.
- [Rhett] So cheeseburgers.
Bargain.
Two out of three rounds.
We prefer the bargain. And the first round,
we actually thought the bargain was.
You know, good enough to not pay for the bougie.
You don't need to be paying so much for your ingredients.
Just make your stuff good.
- I was right.
When you mix stuff, get the cheap stuff, give me my prize.
- [Stevie] You were right.
And you win an assortment of items from Walmart's
clearance section.
So, cheap stuff.
- Oh, look at you.
- I got a $16 bird feeder.
- Wow, that's nice.
- I've got a fuzzy. - Fuzzy book.
- Fuzzy book, I got some root touch up.
- You need it.
- Okay, I can take a hint.
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